This paper proposes the SilkLink Project, an integrated digital corridor and hyperscale data center (HDC) inSyria’s Homs Gap, to restore the historical Silk Road land bridge as a resilient, low-latency, and energy-efficientintercontinental data transit route. We employ a mixed-method approach that uniquely combines: (i) historical geographicinformation system (GIS) trade-route analysis (ORBIS) to validate the corridor’s efficiency; (ii) thermodynamic simulationsusing NASA POWER (2020–2025) hourly data to quantify free-air cooling potential and calculate power usage effectiveness(PUE); (iii) graph-based latency modelling with Dijkstra’s algorithm on a 58-node fiber network augmented with the proposedSilkLink topology; (iv) discrete-event network simulations (NS-3) to evaluate resilient routing protocols (SDN with SegmentRouting over G.654.E fiber) under link failures; and (v) financial models estimating net present value (NPV) and levelizedcost of data.